Turnabout!
The New Strategy for Spaceby Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.Friday, November 22, 2013I had just concluded a most recently presented document with a section of that piece entitled ``What should we actually do about Mars?'' This new publication, just presented here below, may tell you.
Since some time later than the August 8, 2012, successful landing of Curiosity, on Mars, I had spent a good part of less than a recent year, nursing a growing conviction, that the idea of actually sending human beings to live, even briefly, on Mars, would have been the result of a mistake in choice of priorities. It was, ironically, the brilliant success of both Curiosity's landing, and of its operating design, which actually supplied me with one of the two factors which have combined to prompt my present conclusions reached on those accounts. The additional, ultimately still far more important consideration, has now been, the apparently increasing accumulation of evidence for the existence of an accumulation of a deadly threat of lurking ``killer asteroids'' seeming to await their launch of an attack against a mankind now living on Earth.
I speak from experience, as follows: Since the late 1980s, I had been personally committed, over the course of most of this intervening time, to a prospect for a future manned landing on Mars. What has convinced me to abandon that Mars-landing perspective recently, was, ironically, a batch of some rather stunning, crucial facts respecting the achievements of the evidence which Curiosity had demonstrated itself to have achieved....

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Turnabout!
The New Strategy for Spaceby Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'It was, ironically, the brilliant success of both Curiosity's landing, and of its operating design, which actually supplied me with one of the two factors which have combined to prompt my present conclusions reached on those accounts. The additional, ultimately still far more important consideration, has now been, the apparently increasing accumulation of evidence for the existence of an accumulation of a deadly threat of lurking 'killer asteroids' seeming to await their launch of an attack against a mankind now living on Earth. . . . We must deal, both immediately and practically, with the deadly threats now represented by relevant types of asteroids and also other relevant types of threats from within, or near our galaxy!'

Strategic Defense of Earth:
Fusion and Directed-Energy for a Dynamic Approach'There is currently no defense of Earth from future asteroid and comet impacts,' writes Benjamin Deniston of the LaRouchePAC 'Basement' science team, somewhat chillingly. 'Presently, we have identified and tracked only 10,000 out of the estimated population of millions.' But there now exists the 'prospect of mankind becoming a governing principle of the inner Solar System.'

National

Fight Over Glass-Steagall:
State Legislators, Bankers Clash at Legislative ForumA phalanx of bankers and their bought-and-paid-for political hacks carried out a desperate deployment at the Legislative Forum of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), held in Washington, Dec. 4-6, to prevent lawmakers' voting up support for a resolution in favor of GlassSteagall. But they underestimated the fierce determination of its sponsor Maine State Rep. Andrea Boland, and 18 co-sponsored Here is the blow-by-blow account.

Economics

Wall Street Genocide:
Judge Rules To 'Bail-In' Detroit Workers' Pensions The Dec. 3 ruling by a U.S. Bankruptcy giving Detroit's financial führer Kevyn Orr the green light to put the city through Chapter 9 bankruptcy, and to eviscerate public sector retirees' pensions, demonstrates the imminent threat of the Wall Street/City of London 'bail-in' policy against the U.S. population.

International

Biden Trip, Dempsey Speech Push Against Asia War Danger Vice President Biden's weeklong, three-nation visit to Asia, planned well in advance, took on a higher priority following China's recent announcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering much of the East China Sea, including islands claimed by both China and Japan.